Toronto Serial killer's victims were vulnerable gay immigrants (south asian/middle eastern)/homeless
Toronto police went to arrest a man they suspected of murder. They found a man tied to his bed.
When Toronto police moved to arrest a man they suspected of being a serial killer last year, they found a man tied to his bed. Alive.
Police then searched the suspect's hard drive for evidence. There, they discovered eight folders labeled with the names of different men. Each folder contained photos of the men -- some alive and some dead and some with their naked bodies posed in fur coats or with unlit cigars.
There was a ninth folder, too. It was labeled with the name of the man tied to the bed.
Those macabre details were made public by Crown attorney Michael Cantlon this week as part of the criminal sentencing of Bruce McArthur, who lured the men to his home, strangled them and then dismembered them, according to CNN network partner CTV News.
McArthur, 67, pleaded guilty on January 29 to eight counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Andrew Kinsman, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi, Dean Lisowick, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi and Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam.
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Most of the victims were immigrants of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent, Cantlon told the court. Some were from Toronto's Gay Village neighborhood and had ties to the city's LGBTQ community.
"Most of the deceased had traits that made victimization more likely or harder to detect. Some were forced to live parts of their life in secret because of their orientation. Some lacked stable housing," Cantlon said, according to CTV.
"There is evidence that Mr. McArthur sought out and exploited these vulnerabilities to continue his crimes undetected."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/americas/toronto-serial-killer-sentencing/index.html
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